Liverpool Americans

[Teejay]

Hello everyone
I am a new member wondering whether anyone has an interest in the residents of the city in the early 19th century who had lived in America through the Revolutionary War. Many of them had lived on plantations in the southern states and would have been slave owners no doubt.
I have been researching the Storr family, who took the Loyalist side in the War. Briefly; Rachel Moodie ended her life, a spinster, at the age of 78, living in Maryland Street, in the city centre. She was buried at St James', Toxteth, in 1838, in a grave with her oldest sister, Marion Kincaid, who was buried there in 1821 and who had also lived at Maryland Street. Another older sister, Helen Storr, lived on at Maryland Street for another 3 years; dying in 1841, at the age of 97.
Does anyone have access to the old book of Memorial Inscriptions transcribed by James Gibson; volume 3 covers St James I believe. I see that there is a copy in Liverpool library (4 929.5 GIB). I would dearly like to see what was inscribed on the grave.
Many thanks
Trevor Penn

[MaryA]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

This book is available from our online shop http://www.shop.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/acatalog/

However there are no entries for any of the names that you have so it would seem that there wasn't a headstone.

There are a couple of information sheets on the Maritime Archives site that you may find useful and a few online documents/books many of them online and dn't need to be paid for http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mari ... e/sheet/59

[Teejay]

Thank you Mary
Disappointed that no MIs for Kincraid, Moodie or Storr at St James' churchyard. Could you try Woodruff as well please.
Have had a quick look at Maritime Archives. My families were more involved in the Revolutionary War (War of Independence as we used to know it) in the 1770s and whichever side they were on seem to have ended their lives back in Britain, having lived in Jamaica and the Bahamas if they were Loyalists. It would appear that they were granted land there as compensation for their losses in Georgia/South Carolina.
Trevor

[MaryA]

I don't believe you will find Gibsons Epitaphs at the Maritime Museum, however, as advised the CD is for sale at our shop.

Sacred to the memory of Robert HAYES who departed this life 20th
January 1856 aged 46 years. Also of Alice HAYES Mother of the above
who died 3rd February 1862 aged 72 years. Also of Mary Jane the
beloved wife of John WOODRUFF Esq who departed this life 30th June
1863 aged 38 years.